Page Put Active Lines on Hold

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Hi everyone,

Today two of our staff were dialed into a conference call and someone in the office did an “all page” which apparently put their phones on hold. So on our end, we just had dead air but apparently everyone else on the conference call was hearing the 3CX hold music. They hung up and had to dial back in. How do we resolve this?
 
Hi!

The short answer is: you can't

Let me explain though. Paging Groups in the majority of cases are used for emergency notifications. This means that it is generally a good idea, when a "Page" is sent out, that devices with active calls put the active calls on hold to play the Paging message to the user.

Now, when an Active calls is put on hold, the other end hears MoH, unfortunately though "the other end" in this case is the Audio Conference and whoever is in it.

So, I don't view this as am issue, but here are a few things you can do:
  • Make the Paging Number something that is not easy for someone to mis-dial.
  • Get dedicated paging devices for the areas of the office that need to hear Paging Notifications (e.g. this) and only configure those for Paging, no longer needing to page User devices that they are using for regular calls.
 
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By default 3cx assumes the only purpose of the paging feature is to make emergency notifications and so they default to setting these to the highest priority rather than make it a configurable item in the phone provisioning.

You can make a custom phone template to change the behaviour to set the priority of multicast paging to be at the lowest priority to prevent an active call being interrupted. This would make your phone template unsupported so you would need to do this on your own. If your PBX is hosted by 3cx it does not allow modifications that would make it unsupported so the option to make custom templates will not be present in the hosted version.

If you decide to go with unsuported templates you will also see all your phones show up in the admin console in red to indicate they are using the custom and unsupported templates along with a warning on the main dashboard.

If you have problems you need to reprovision your phones to verify it works on the supported template before you can receive support. Also any time they update the templates you should compare what changes are being made to see if your custom template should be updated to match.

an example, I use many Yealink phones. I make this change to the built in templates:
#Enbale or diable the phone to handle the incoming multicast paging calls when there is a multicast paging call on the phone; 0-Disabled, 1-Enabled (default); #If enabled, the phone will answer the incoming multicast paging call with a higher priority and ignore that with a lower priority. multicast.receive_priority.enable = 0 #Configure the priority of multicast paging calls. It ranges from 0 to 10. multicast.receive_priority.priority = 0
 
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